Featured Articles
Targeted Teaching: Ensuring Lessons Hit the Mark
Targeted teaching is all about setting students up for success. Rather than hoping a certain topic hits the mark, it provides a progressive framework to ensure chosen tasks are purposeful, prac...
Jamie Bricker
How Data Science Can Help You Create Better Customer Experiences
Ocean’s 13 is more than just a heist movie in a casino. It showed how using a high-tech artificial intelligence system precisely predicts the genuineness of a player’s win, by analyzing factors ...
Samuel Alfie
Want to Save Public Education? The Answers are Simple
Recently, I wrote a piece for the Grit Daily website entitled “Technology is Overwhelming Education and That’s Why We Need More of It.” The premise for the column was that using more, sophisti...
Charles Sosnik
It’s Time for PBL to Change the World
Is there any educator in the world who wouldn’t want his or her students to demonstrate the following qualities: Committed, Creative, Confident, Courageous, and Curious ? Or to see students l...
Thom Markham
Still Not Fully Staffed? Here are the Three Simple Reasons
As we continue our research with principals into their experiences with the growing teacher shortage, I am somewhat surprised at the numbers that are still interviewing to fill open positions. ...
Jacqueline Gordon
Achieving Collectively What We Can’t Do Alone: Helping Learners through Structural Partnerships
Schools, districts and other education organizations face daily stumbling blocks to success, including limited funding, political stasis and complacency from portions of the public. It can alrea...
Katherine Prince
Why Robotics Benefits Early Education
The rampant digitalization of our society has touched and fundamentally altered all domains of our lives, including education. What was once enough to prepare pupils for their adult life is no l...
Anna Iarotska
Directly Addressing Behavior to Form the Foundation for Learning
Schools have a core mission to develop students who have the all-around skills and knowledge to succeed in life. Regardless of the name we give these skills―grit, growth mindset, or social-emoti...
Lori Jackson and Steve Peck
Can Tech Fill the Gaping Hole Left by Teacher Exodus?
America, we have a problem.
Charles Sosnik
Schoolwide Approach to SEL
Over the past year, I have had countless conversations with educators, from administrators to classroom teachers, about their perspectives on social-emotional learning (SEL). My team and I have...
Tamara Fyke
Actively Learn’s CEO and Co-Founder Jay Goyal: Helping Teachers Provide a Deeper Reading Experience
Jay Goyal, the CEO and Co-Founder of Actively Learn, began his journey to EdTech after graduating from Duke University with a B.S. in Economics. He worked in business development before bein...
The LC Staff
The K-12 Business Model: How to Innovate in an Ever-Changing Learning Environment
Each fall, teachers will get a new sea of smiling faces in their classrooms. Almost no other industry operates under this unique business model, where each year your audience is replaced with a ...
Steve Halliwell and Cheryl Miller
Another Giant Tech Company Pays Record Fines: What Does it All Mean?
It hardly even registers anymore. Google and YouTube agreed to pay $170 Million for violating child privacy rights. There was a time when that might have meant something. But news of tech comp...
Charles Sosnik
Putting KnowledgeWorks’ Strategy Guide to Work for Your Organization
Editor’s note: This is part one in a three-part series. Between the breakneck speed of technology’s advance and tectonic shifts in the job market, educators and learners can feel overwh...
Katherine Prince
The Future of School Websites Is Consolidation and Consumerization
As technology improves, educational sites are evolving from digital brochures to marketing tools and communication hubs that feel familiar enough to make the entire community feel welcome.
Ali Arsan
Gaming Builds Valuable Life Skills
As someone dedicated to the well-being of children, you know the constant struggle between screens and real life as well as I do. Like you, I have guidelines for my classes and my home about sc...
Tamara Fyke
Why a 21st Century Teacher Isn’t Just a “Guide on the Side”
The great fiction that a teacher today has become a “guide on the side” is now hardwired into nearly every conversation about the future of teaching and learning. Teachers don’t deliver informat...
Thom Markham
Schools Say Highest Pressure Stems from Their Students’ Social and Emotional Needs
Exclusive findings from the latest Learning Counsel Survey
LeiLani Cauthen
Value Spring Technology Vies for a Seat Alongside Apple, Google at the Artificial Intelligence Table
“If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a ‘bust’ when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.” — Futurist, Ray Kurzweil...
Charles Sosnik
Two Models for Leveling Up How You Integrate Technology and Teaching
A 2019 Common Sense survey found that only four out of every 10 teachers consider the professional development that they received on the use of technology in the classroom to be effective. Th...
Lynn Erickson and Paul Gigliotti
Featured Papers
The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.
Most will require registration in order to access them, but they are all free.
Addressing Crises in School Absenteeism, Staffing and Privacy: Using a human touch tech solution
Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
